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liveless

liveless is the obsolete form of lifeless.

Meaning of lifeless

Adjective

lifeless (comparative more lifeless, superlative most lifeless)

  1. inanimate; having no life
  2. dead; having lost life
    • a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts,
      With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits,
      Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are,
      And might, if my extreames had ful euents,
      Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
  3. uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life
  4. dull or lacking vitality
    • In a largely lifeless second half their only shot on target was a tame overhead effort from Paul Pogba, and Mourinho's already stretched squad saw Luke Shaw and Lukaku limp off late on, while Ashley Young picked up a fifth booking of the season which rules him out of Wednesday's league game at home...2018 December 1, Tom Rostance, “Southampton 2 - 2 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport

Forms of liveless

comparativemore liveless
superlativemost liveless

Questions about liveless

What is liveless the obsolete form of?
Liveless is the obsolete form of lifeless.

Words near liveless in the dictionary

  1. livehouse
  2. livehouses
  3. liveingite
  4. LiveJournaler
  5. LiveJournalers
  6. liveless
  7. livelier
  8. livelies
  9. liveliest
  10. livelihed
  11. livelihood

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Adapted from Wiktionary: liveless (page history and authors); lifeless (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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